Tag: vegetarian
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MasterChef: Veggies and Catfish
The only difference between de-ja-vu and mys-te-ry-box is that one of them has 4 syllables. I am sick of mystery boxes. I hate them. My only consolation is that you can’t be eliminated on a mystery box. I lift today’s mystery box and underneath is a treasure trove of veggies. I may be a Texan…
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Christian’s Big Chocolate “O”
Christian is a chocolate FIEND. I have never seen anyone who can eat more chocolate than Christian. For his birthday several years ago, Julia Child’s Chocolate Bombe just wasn’t cutting it any more, which was my replacement for Chocolate Blackout Cake. So I had to think of something new. This was the result: Christian’s Big…
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Ben Starr’s Pumpkin Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting and Candied Hazelnuts
**Please note, instructions for making this into cupcakes are located at the bottom of the “cake” section of the recipe. This is the cake that I get demands for every October at my annual Fall Dinner Party, where I serve a 5 course meal with each course based on pumpkin. Regardless of what unique, delicious…
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Chocolate Espresso Cheesecake
Cheesecake is so indulgent, right? I have to make it every once in awhile, usually for special occasions, but it’s so rich and so expensive to make that I only do it a few times a year. Coffee is one of my favorite flavors, and that’s why I had to marry it with cheesecake. This…
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Rustic Italian Veggie Pie
I saw a picture of something like this in a vegetarian cookbook, and since my household is temporarily vegetarian while my veggie friend is visiting from Brasil, I decided to make my own version. This is a pretty easy dinner, very hearty, sort of like a calzone. You could really use a variety of ingredients…
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Wild Mushroom and Egg Yolk Raviolo with Black Truffle Cream Sauce
You probably shouldn’t make this. Food this good shouldn’t exist. It sorta ruins the rest of the food in the world after you eat it. But if you MUST… I first had a raviolo (“raviolo” just means a BIG ravioli) stuffed with egg yolk at Joe Bastianich’s restaurant Osteria Mozza, where Mario Batali is the…